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Euthanasia
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Consistent life ethic Eugenics Euthanasia device Groningen Protocol Suicide tourism
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The Groningen Protocol is a medical protocol created in September 2004 by Eduard Verhagen, the medical director of the department of pediatrics at the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) in Groningen, the Netherlands. It contains directives with criteria under which physicians can perform "active ending of life on infants" (child euthanasia) without fear of legal prosecution.^[1]^[2]^[3]

^ Paediatricians call for nationwide protocol for the ending of life of unbearably and incurably suffering newborns – 10 December 2004
^ Murder or health care: the Groningen Protocol Archived 2010-09-21 at the Wayback Machine
^ Kodish, Eric (2008). "Paediatric ethics: a repudiation of the Groningen protocol". The Lancet. 371 (9616): 892–893. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(08)60402-X. PMID 18348350. S2CID 28268753.